Big Day, Bigger Week for Online Shopping

Monday was the biggest online shopping day in what is likely to be the heaviest week ever for shopping on the Web, comScore Inc. predicts. The Web measurement firm says sales so far this holiday season are up 13 percent over last year. While the pace slowed a bit last week, comScore attributes that in part to there being two extra shopping days this year between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Between Dec. 1 and Dec. 7, web spending hit the $1 billion-dollar-mark on three days